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The annual Chevron Lubricants Asia Pacific leadership team meeting was held at The Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo, from 14-17 February.
The meeting was attended by global, functional and country leaders including global Supply Chain Head Kevin Luke, Head of Lubricants Asia Pacific Region Farrukh Saeed, Country Heads Joseph Bronfman, Chutintorn Pugkhem, Louie Zhang and Asim Ali Khan, regional leaders Kishu Gomes, Christopher Walden, Lennard Kwek and Joanne Koh, together with over 75 regional extended leadership members. Chevron Lubricants Advisor to the President Baomin Guo was also a notable participant at the strategic session.
The guest speaker at the event was Michel Nugawela, a brand development consultant who specialises in brand strategy and brand identity development with related specialization in change strategies across newly-rebranded or repositioned organisations.
Nugawela introduced the leadership team to Leadership Archetyping, a disruptive Jungian psychological approach to individuation and leadership, based on 12 archetypal dimensions of leadership that are able to significantly enhance and transform executive and team performance by connecting cognitive functions with the unconscious mind.
The 12 archetypes – Innocent, Orphan, Warrior, Caregiver, Explorer, Lover, Destroyer, Creator, Ruler, Magician, Sage and Jester – reflect the various roles that leaders can play in organizations and put a human face to the attitudes, interactions, and recurring patterns of behaviour that influence their effectiveness. Similarly, a lack of alignment between a leader’s archetype and the organization in which he or she operates is a main cause of team and organisational dysfunctionality and executive failure.
“The Warrior is the fundamental archetype for leadership,” said Nugawela. “The basic requirements of the Warrior leader in its positive pole are mental toughness, professional competence, emotional control, realistic decision-making and motivating others to the highest levels of achievement. But leaders who lack consciousness of the fullest potential of the Warrior archetype can also slide into its negative pole and see their role as a ‘win at any cost’ version of leadership. There is also a very real problem when leaders overextend their stay in the Warrior. They then unconsciously deny or repress other archetypes that are vital to the leadership role.”
The leadership team meeting also celebrated successes in the year ending by recognising leaders and companies within Chevron Asia Pacific for exemplary individual and corporate achievement.
“These achievements demonstrate a drive for operational excellence, market growth and a commitment to workplace safety,” said Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC Managing Director and CEO Kishu Gomes, who is also an Asia Pacific regional leadership member. “They also reflect Chevron’s relentless pursuit of creative solutions to promote and secure a socially-responsible energy future.”
Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC is an important business unit for the Chevron Corporation, ranked amongst the world’s top 3 Fortune 500 companies. Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC is the market leader in the Sri Lankan lubricant industry and an exporter of lubricants to the Asia Pacific countries, Bangladesh and the Maldives.
